Love and Treasure, by Ayelet Waldman
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Love and Treasure, by Ayelet Waldman
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Three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siècle Budapest - find their carefully wrought lives turned upside down by three women. A mystery: Where does the worth of people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more?
Love and Treasure, by Ayelet Waldman- Amazon Sales Rank: #194206 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-03-19
- Released on: 2015-03-19
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 851 minutes
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59 of 62 people found the following review helpful. "Please open the boxcars." By Malfoyfan Ayelet Waldman's new novel Love and Treasure tells the story of the Hungarian "Gold Train", which was discovered in Austria at the end of WWII. It's quite an interesting story, one that was unknown to me, and somewhat in the vein of the new film The Monuments Men, which partly concerns the recovery of works of art and other items stolen from Jewish families when they were sent to the camps. The Gold Train consisted of some 40 boxcars full of household and personal items, furs, cameras, jewelry, gold, silver and cash, art and art objects, all of which were taken from nearly a half-million Hungarian Jews. In Waldman's story, American lieutenant Jack Wiseman, a Jewish linguist, is much in demand as a translator and is put in charge of organizing and looking after the items. As he works his way through the treasure, he comes across a unique peacock pendant, which will feature prominently throughout the novel.The novel consists of three main sections - Jack's story during the war; his granddaughter Natalie's search for the peacock pendant's owner, which brings her into contact with an art dealer looking for a lost painting involving the same pendant; and the true story of the pendant's provenance. Some reviewers have noted that they found the structure is jarring or disjointed, but it didn't bother me. I found all three sections fascinating and I thought Waldman did a good job bringing all the parts of her story together and no one section was too long or short. What kept it from being a five-star for me was that I felt an emotional distance from the material. It was intellectually stimulating but I didn't really connect to it on an emotional level. It had more of a documentary feel to it, not that that's a bad thing. There is history, mystery, romance, art - it really has a lot going for it and it's obviously well-researched and thoughtfully written. Waldman is a very good writer, one of the few whose books I would buy or order from Vine without even looking at the subject matter. (Check out her novel Red Hook Road, one of the best books I've read in a long time.) This one didn't quite get my highest marks, but that doesn't mean it isn't worth your time. I give her full marks for trying something different from her previous books. I highly recommend it, especially if you have any interest in stories similar to Monuments Men or an interest in the Holocaust or WWII.
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful. A Treasure Trove of Stories By rebelmomof2 I have only read one of Ms. Waldman's previous books so it is with anticipation that I picked this one up. I have read quite a bit of stories set in WWII, among the Holocaust camps, among survivors' tales that have been passed down the years to descendants and more. This one is unique in the fact that it is a Hungarian tale; it revolves around a Jewish community in the early 1900s before WWII, and even before WWI; and it is about the history of a special pendant. Not only that, there are four stories that are connected to one another seamlessly and I will admit that throughout this entire book, I was looking out of each of the main character's eyes. It was as if I was sitting in the same room with them, listening to their stories.It is haunting. It is one of the very few books that followed me throughout the day as I go about doing the chores and normal routines of life. It is not a book that is meant to be rushed through but it is a book meant to dwell upon and read closely to hear what the author is trying to say through her characters. It is a treasure trove of stories.I didn't find the four stories disjointed. I found it fascinating. The only disappointment I had was that there weren't more to the stories ... but at the same time, I was able to use my imagination to fill in the blanks. It has been a long time since I've read a book written by an author who not only told the story, but left it open to one's imagination.This one captured the imagination simply with the mystery of this peacock pendant. Jack Wiseman asked his granddaughter if she would do him a favor by tracking down who the pendant belonged to. The stories of a young man sent to guard a camp full of survivors and the subsequent discovery of the train filled with merchandise that was intercepted on its way to Berlin in the last days of the war keeps one's interest piqued throughout this book. One just had to keep turning the pages to know what was going to happen next. There the story follows Jack's granddaughter, Natalie, who fulfilled his request by going to Hungary to track down the artist of the peacock, only to go on a treasure hunt for an elusive painting. Then the story moves to 1913, where a doctor shares his story of a remarkable patient of his, with the remarkable pendant being in her possession.The stories are loosely linked such as items tend to be, whether they're displaced in acts of war or given as gifts to people, or simply stolen for memories of love. Waldman has a way of firing up the imagination with this book and it will undoubtedly haunt me from now on, no matter what Holocaust story I end up reading next. This is one of the few books where it is just brilliantly done.3/15/14
24 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Love and Treasures Won and Lost By Fairbanks Reader Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman is a novel steeped in the Holocaust without once being immersed in the awful facts of the camps. There are multiple threads and numerous fascinating characters but the thrust of the story is from the viewpoint of three individuals during three different times. We get clear insight into these times by means of Ms Waldman's remarkable prowress as a gifted story-teller in full command of her characters and their times.We first meet Jack Wiseman in Salzburg during 1945 right after the end of the war. Captain Wiseman is in charge of dealing with a trainload of confiscated Hungarian Jewish goods known as the Gold Train. While in Salzburg, Jack meets Ilona, a Hungarian Jew just released from the camps. Among the goods on the train, he finds a jeweled locket in the form of a peacock that he hopes belongs to Ilona. It does not. The quest for the rightful owner occupies the center of this remarkable novel.Jack's granddaughter, Natalie, finds the locket in the present time in her grandfather's home as he is dying, and she takes on the task of returning the locket to its rightful owners, a monumental task given the 70 year lapse in time. Natalie enlists the aid of Amitai, an Israeli whose business is brokering the sale of goods such as the peacock locket - valuable, but not financially priceless, however priceless a treasure they may have been to their original owners. The detective portion of this novel reminds me of The Lost.The third portion of the novel takes place during the milieu of the locket's original owner in 1913 Budapest. It is told from the viewpoint of Herr Doktor Zobel, a psychiatrist who has been asked by her upper middle class Jewish father to analyze and "cure" Nina of her mental ailments. Nina's ailments are that she wishes to become a physician and refuses to marry the man her father has chosen, regardless of the financial expediency of the union. Nina is a suffragette. She has no more severe ailment than painful menstrual cramps.Among the awful truths about the Holocaust is that each life that was lost, each spirit that was broken, resonates into the future. Children were not born, discoveries were not made, and legacies were lost. Israel was born in part out of guilt, populated by a mixture of the fierce sabras, the broken from the camps, and those defiant ones who would see the world end before another Holocaust. These truths are made clear through the very human characters in this important and poignant novel.
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